There seems to be a growing trend of anti-Semitism on college and university campuses – including at the University of Tennessee (UT). Canary Mission, a watchdog group that exposes Jew hatred on college campuses, revealed to The Algemeiner that there’s a “disturbing trend” of anti-Semitism at UT being launched by individuals within the school’s chapters of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The Algemeiner reports:

The watchdog named six key individuals… responsible for the dissemination and active promotion of antisemitic and racist ideologies… a 2016 graduate with ties to the MSA… a sophomore and member of SJP, MSA and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement… a sophomore affiliated with MSA… a junior who is the president of SJP, co-president of MSA and a supporter of BDS… a BDS-supporter who recruits members to the UTK SJP’s Facebook page; and… a student connected to MSA.

Some of the tweets of MSA and SJP members are revolting. One tweet in particular sums up the vile sentiment toward Jews: “I already hate you. You dirty filthy Jew. All your people do is f**ked up s**t. Wish hitler was still around to show you guys[.]” It’s disturbing that Hitler was praised a lot in the tweets. It seems like these activists are carrying on the long tradition of Nazi propaganda within Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups – the ‘Palestinian’ Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini and the Brotherhood both had relationships with the Nazis.

Of course, Jew-hatred isn’t just limited to the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates.  It is widespread in the Islamic world:

…A 2013-14 Anti-Defamation League Global 100 survey reveals that about half (Index score of 49%) of the Muslim population surveyed worldwide hold Anti-Semitic views, while three quarters (Index score of 75%) of Muslim respondents in the MENA region harbor such views.

Some people will argue the reason for this Jew hatred is more cultural than purely Islamic.  However, one cannot deny the enmity toward religious minorities inherent in Sharia law as well as Islamic texts that specifically target Jews, such as:

You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant. –Quran 5:82

UT denies that the article fairly represents the atmosphere on the campus, although they do not appear to deny either that the statements were made nor that they were unacceptable.  They claim that SJP works with at least some Jewish groups on occasion, and that some of the students identified in the article had already finished their time at UT.  Unfortunately, the university seems to prefer this denial to serious efforts to ensure that its students are not subject to such poisonous acts of antisemitism in the future.  In the face of this weak response by the school, there is the danger that these groups might be inspired to worse.